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152 son, so my so-called marriage is a void. mit me to marry Señorita Constancia de la Rama y Lac- mit me to marry Señorita Constancia de la Rama y Lacson, so my so-called marriage is a void.

Hoping sir, that Remorse will soon cause your heart to weep I am

No longer your pupil and assistant-maestro

"Thunder!" exclaimed the Maestro, suddenly again belligerent. "Let's get after him!"

But the Maestra had picked up the letter and was reading it.

"Oh," she said, when she had finished; "oh, that is very nice. Now I can—what you call?—ah, divorce; I can divorce—just like an American girl!"

And thus it is that the Girls' School of Balangilang is still the envy of the maestros for leagues around.